DRAFT RESPONSE TO PRM-11, TASK 2

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00095A000300020011-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: May 5, 1977
• Content Type: PAPER

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Draft Response to PRM-11, Task 2
The following changes are recommended in the draft:
1. Page 54, last sentence of text; change to read: "There
was no authoritative basis for the DCI to stimulate new
initiatives or to direct trade-offs between programs."
2. Page 55, last line; insert between "accomplishment."
and "But,": "The CFI supported by the IC Staff reviewed
all major aspects of all elements of the NFIP--a scrutiny
more intense than any other program or budget in the
federal government. For the first time the Intelligence
Community was forced to speak with one voice before the
President and the Congress and as a result coordinate
its activities to a greater degree than ever before."
3. Page 56, line five, two sentences beginning with "Progress";
change to read: "Progress was made in achieving decisions
on major issues involving new initiatives and modernization
efforts and in obtaining Community positions on issues
highlighted by Congress and OMB interests. However,
the compressed review cycle and internecine disputes
disrupted efforts to examine complex cross-program
issues and resource balances."
4. Pages 57-60; change "Conclusions" to "Opinions"; change
"Opinion 1" and "Opinion 2" as follows:
Opinion 1:
The present system worked well for the first year. A
learning curve will show improvement, especially as a full
cycle of evaluation, planning, programming, and budgeting is
implemented. Moreover, despite the cost in bureaucratic
struggle, it is important that the future programs and
budgets of the main national intelligence entities be thrashed
out in a forum where a diversity of needs and views are
authoritatively represented. To function with full effectiveness,
the Community mechanism requires direct access to and influence
over the entire programming and budget process, including
program execution of all NFIP programs. PRC(I) decisions
must be recognized as final, except for infrequent cases
appealed to the National Security Council. In essence, the
system can work if the members of the Community are clearly
instructed that it must and will work if a rational informal
structure is nourished by a spirit of cooperation.
Opinion 2:
The first opinion is correct in stressing the value of
a collegial mechanism :Eor airing the views of the members of
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the Community. Diversity of demands on. intelligence programs
that exist in the real world, and the variety of requirements
among the Departments/Agencies which make up the Community
must be coordinated to insure the most effective program
structure. However, in the final analysis, the ultimate
authority over the programs and budgets of departmentally based
intelligence programs rests--and must rest--with the Department
head. The DCI should lead by defining requirements and
priorities and the PRC(I) or a similar mechanism should review
and recommend how these priorities and requirements should
impact on programs. Those requirements and priorities can be
met with the voluntary cooperation of the departments that
run the collection programs.
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